Mutassim Gaddafi

Mutassim Gaddafi (18 December 1974-20 October 2011) was the National Security Advisor of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya from 2008 to 2011 under his father, Muammar Gaddafi. Mutassim, along with his father, was killed in the Battle of Sirte at the end of the Libyan Civil War.

Biography
Mutassim Gaddafi was born on 18 December 1974 was born on 18 December 1974 in Tripoli, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, the son of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi and Safia Farkash, his Hungarian/Croatian wife. He lived in Egypt for many years after his father accused him of trying to seize power for himself, but they later reconciled, and Mutassim became the National Security Advisor of Libya. Like Muammar Gaddafi's other sons, he had a very non-Islamic lifestyle, hiring singers Beyonce and Mariah Carey to sing at his parties and having a four-year relationship with American model Vanessa Hessler. In 2009, he met with United States Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the highest-level diplomatic exchange between the countries since relations were normalized a few years earlier, and he attempted to negotiate an arms deal with America in order to defend Libya from Europe to the north, Sub-Saharan Africa to the south, Algeria to the west, and Egypt to the east, all threats against Gaddafi's rule.

When the Libyan Civil War broke out in 2011, Gaddafi commanded the units in the Brega region, including the battle on the Brega-Ajdabiya road. His close links to his father's inner circle led to a travel ban and his assets being frozen, and he commanded the unsuccessful final stand at Sirte along with his father. Mutassim was shot in the throat and abdomen when the National Transitional Council's military ambushed the Gaddafis' convoy as it attempted to flee Sirte on 20 October, and he was taken to a hospital. He eventually died of his wounds, and rebels defaced his body and denied him a burial within a day of his death, contradicting Islamic law.